First of all, we survived and we were born normally, even though our mothers, when they had headaches, took aspirin, ate canned food, and worked until the last days of pregnancy and were never tested for diabetes...
As children, we rode in cars without seat belts and airbags, rode bikes and skated without helmets...
We drank water from the garden hose, not from bottles purchased at large retail chains.
We drank from the same bottle and no one died because of it...
We ate milk ice cream, white bread with butter or lard and garlic, drank soft drinks with sugar, but we weren't overweight because we were constantly playing outside...
We would go out in the morning and play all day, playing hide and seek, border guards, thieves and cops, queens, cowboys and Indians, and everything else a child's imagination is capable of creating.
Often our parents couldn't find us all day, and slapping was part of education, not domestic violence.
We never had any problems. We spent the whole day racing with boards made from scraps from the basement, riding our bikes down the street, forgetting that we didn't even have brakes. After a few falls, broken fingers and bruises, we learned how to solve our problems. We didn't have imaginary friends. We didn't add friends on social networks, but eventually we had real friends!
We had no problems concentrating at school...
They didn't give us hyperactivity pills. We didn't have school psychologists and teachers, but we still graduated from school. We don't sell drugs in front of the school. We didn't have PlayStation, Nintendo, 100 cable channels, we didn't have VCRs, surround sound, mobile computers, the Internet, chat rooms...
We had friends and they were real, they were everything! We played with bows and arrows, built snow forts, set off fireworks for New Year's, read a bunch of comics! We would bike or walk to our friends' houses to be together, without any prior arrangement!
When it came to trouble with the law, our parents wouldn't pay bail to get us out. In fact, they were often stricter than the law itself! The last 50 years have been the most productive years in the history of the world. Our generations have produced the best inventors and scientists to date. We had freedom, the right to make mistakes, success, and responsibility. We learned to live with them! You belong to this generation!
Congratulations! Maybe you should share this with other people who were lucky enough to grow up as real children before lawyers, heads of state and government started determining how we should live!
Maybe you want to send this message to your children too, so they can see how their parents grew up? Hello generation! Each of us is an angel with one wing and we can only fly when we are hugged!
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